Asprox virus active on UK government websites
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008The Times [of London] are reporting, 23 July 2008. that a new trojan is now making waves in the UK having already hit US sites:
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. [...] Last week, Asprox infected the Norfolk NHS website, used by thousands of people a day. Hackney Council’s website was one of 12 local council websites also compromised, meaning that anyone logging on to pay a parking ticket or council tax was at risk over a three day period. [...] In the US, the virus has successfully penetrated mainstream sites belonging to Sony’s Playstation, the city of San Francisco and Snapple.
Asprox is an automated SQL injection attack that (more…)